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Rubiks cube: Tips to break 1 minute wall

2010-02-18T10:00:00.004+07:00

Hi guys, I have been absorbed into cubing for a while. lol.

Today I'm back with some tricks for solving the rubiks cube in less than one minute.

Here are some tips and tricks:

Do the algorithms without a pause.
You should memorize the beginner method algorithms, and execute them without a pause. I mean when you do the algorithms, you should be able to do it without thinking. In order to be able to do this, you should do the algorithms over and over again until the muscle in your hand memorizes the algorithms. That way, even though sometimes you forget the algorithms' notations, your hands have already memorize the algorithms, and able to do it without thinking.
I think that most of cubers don't even remember the notations of the algorithms, but their hands can execute the algorithms without thinking what the moves are. If someone asks me to write down my algorithms, I will not be able to do it without trying it on a cube first and then write it. In conclusion, let your hands memorize the algorithms in order to do the algorithms without any pauses.
Learn how to do basic fingertricks.
To be able to break the 1 minute wall, you should use your fingers to turn the cube. I don't mean use all fingers to turn only one face. I mean use one finger to turn one face. For example, to do a U turn, use your right forefinger to turn U. In order to turn R or L, of course you can use your all fingers there. For D turn, you can use your left ring finger, so that you don't need to change the position of your hands. The point is that use your fingers efficiently.
Here's a link to a website of Joel Van Noort, there are some useful tutorial about fingertricks and some other cubing stuff: http://solvethecube.110mb.com/fingertricks.html
The 'p' word.
Practice! People say that practice makes perfect! lol. Don't give up! A lot of people can pass the 1 minute wall, of course you can do it to!

Good luck!

How to memorize algorithms for Rubik's cube?

2009-11-11T14:18:00.003+07:00

Hi guys! For those who are also into speedcubing and wondering how to memorize the algorithms, I have a way to memorize the algorithms. My way is actually very simple, but according to my experience, it's effective.

I memorize the algorithms by doing them for minimum 40 times in a row. That way, your fingers will remember how you do it.

Here are the steps:

Prepare a solved cube
Preparing a solved cube has something to do with the cycle. I have noticed that if an algorithm is done several times, the first pattern will always come back. For instance, we have a solved u face, and we do an algorithm 4 times, and at the end we'll have a solved u face too. Some patterns will come back after being done 4 times, some patterns 6 times, and other patterns might need 7, 8, 10, etc.
A solved cube will help you to indicate that we are doing the algorithms correctly, because when we do it correctly, at the end it will always a solved face.
Do the algorithms slowly, look at your fingers, and feel the turns
We have to start slowly because when we are doing the algorithms, we would be able to see the fingers and feel the turns. Personally, I do the algorithms slowly for the first 10 times, and if I feel I have memorized the algorithms, I'll make it faster and faster eventually.
Use finger tricks(optional)
This might not suit very beginner cubers who do not know about finger tricks yet. I am not an expert cuber, but I know some finger tricks. When we do the algorithms using the finger tricks, we automatically divide the algorithms into several fragments. The fragments would be useful by reducing the number of movement we have to memorize. For example, if we are doing RUR' , if we are doing the finger tricks, we will automatically remember those movements as one continuous movement. Thus, reducing the number of movement we have to remember. By doing it over and over again, our finger will get used to the algorithms.
Do the algorithms minimum 40 times, write how many times you have done the algorithms
Personally, I do the algorithm minimum 40 times. I still do it 40 times even though sometimes I have memorized the algorithms after the 25th times. The reason is that I am making my muscle to memorize the algorithms. We have something which is called muscle-memory. This memory is used when we move our body without thinking, just by feeling. For example, a pianist will play the piano without thinking what fingers he should use to push the tuts, if he has gotten used to the playing the song. Another example is a martial artist who can respond to a sudden attack just by relying on his reflexes. His body will respond according to what he has trained. The training makes his muscle to memorize the movements.

Those are the steps I do to memorize algorithms. I hope that it will help those who are having a hard time memorizing algorithms.

Good luck in memorizing your algorithms!

Speedcubing

2009-11-08T13:57:00.002+07:00

Hi guys! Right now I am addicted to speedcubing. I am trying to solve a rubik's cube 3x3x3 as fast as possible, but I am still not that good.

If you want to try to do speecubing, just buy a cube and try to solve it by beginners solution first. Then later try to learn more advanced solutions. I've written some articles about Rubik's cube on this blog.

You can try these websites too:

www.cubestation.co.uk

www.cubefreak.net

Here is a video of...

Rubik's cube official world record 7.08s Erik Akkersdijk

How many dogs does each child get?

2009-10-13T23:57:00.000+07:00

17 Dogs?!

One day, Bob, a father with 3 children, wants to give his dogs to his children. He has 17 dogs...
Bob wants the first child to get 1/2 of his dogs.
Bob wants the second child to get 1/6 of his dogs.
Bob wants the last child to get 1/9 of his dogs.

How many dogs does each child get?

Remember, dogs can't be cut...

Give comments please...
Thank you, ^^

A Climbing Snail

2009-10-13T23:46:00.002+07:00

I have a new brain teaser:

There's a snail which is at the bottom of a well. It wants to get out of the well.

The well is 30m tall. The snail can only climb in the morning. In the evening, the snail slips down.

Every time the snail climbs, the snail climbs for 3 m. Every time the snail slips down, it slips for 2m.

How long will it take the snail to get out of the well?

What color did he wear?

2009-10-06T05:51:00.003+07:00

Hi guys! This is a brain teaser about hats and colours.

The story:

There are 3 people who want to wear hats. Next to them, there was a box, and inside the box there were 3 black hats and 2 white hats. Their eyes were closed by a piece of cloth, and every person took the hat without knowing the colour of his own hat.

A few minutes later, they were lined up and the cloths were removed. There was only one rule for each person, that every person was allowed only to see the hat of the person/people in front of them. The 3rd person could see the hats of the 2 people in front of him, the 2nd person could see the hat of the 1st person, and the 1st person couldn't see any people's hats.

A friend of them came and asked them one by one:

He asked the 3rd person, "Do you know the colour of your hat?"

The 3rd person said no.

He asked the 2nd person, "Do you know the colour of your hat?"

The 2nd person also said no.

He asked the 1st person, who was the person who couldn't see any people's hats, "Do you know the colour of your hat?"

The 1st person said, "Yes"

The questions for you:

What was the colour of the 1st person's hat?

How did he know the colour of his hat?

Answer this by commenting on this post.

Good luck!

Where is the plane now?

2009-09-22T06:04:00.003+07:00

Hi guys, today I'll post a brain teaser for you.

There was a plane departing from an airport located in the North pole. The plane flew 40 miles to the south. Then, it changed its direction and flew 30 miles to the east and stopped there.

The question: How far was the plane from the North Pole?

Answer the question by giving comments to this post.

Good luck! In a few days, I'll give you the answer.

Life is about Making the Right Choice

2009-09-21T12:02:00.004+07:00

Hi guys, I have been busy and lazy to be precise, therefore I have been taking a break from blogging.

This time, the topic is about Life and making choices.

Goal of life?

What does it mean to live? It means to be able to breathe, to eat, to move, to reproduce, and other things. What kind of measurement do we use to measure our standard of live, to decide whether our lives is a good or bad lives? We usually use our happiness to measure it, although sometimes people use wealth. Why happiness? My friend told me that according to Aristotle, our goal of live is happiness. People work for money, and the money is used to buy things that satisfy their needs, which will give them happiness. People do things to be happy.

What does happiness have to do with making choices? The answer is simple, we have to make choices, a lot of choices, in order to achieve happiness. How many choices do we have to make to achieve happiness? We have to make almost infinite choices to achieve happiness. Every second, even every millisecond, we have to make choices. Among the choices, we have to choose one which is the best.

For example, every time we want to move, we have almost infinite combinations of possible moves, we can move our arms, hands, head, eyebrows, eyes, leg, feet, or any other body parts. Combined with the possible directions, the number of combinations approach infinity.

Another example, when we see a person, we have a lot of possible actions we can do, varying from slapping that person, kicking him/her, shouting at him/her, or even kill him/her. A decision we make will affect our future. If we choose to kill that person, we will be chased by the police and put into jail. We will also have some kind of feeling which tells us that we are wrong, we made the wrong decision.

We, humans, are able to make decisions better than computers(of course, we are the ones who program computers). We are able to immediately remove choices which are bad for our future, i.e. killing people. We don't even think about that choice(killing people), but computers have to analyse every possible choice and then measure the impact on our future. Therefore, it's wrong to have computers choose for us.

Factors that affect our capabilities to make choices?

There are a lot of factors that can affect our capabilities to make choices, I will explain about one of them, which is knowledge.

Knowledge has a great role in our lives, actually it's something that control almost all our way of thinking, the other small part is controlled by our inner child. It is important to have the knowledge about the choices we make, to predict the effect of those choices.

People with great amount of knowledge will make better choices, not all, but most of them. For example, we have the choice to have drugs or to be addicted to drugs. Most people with knowledge would consider the future effect, when they will lose their health, their money, their social life, and most importantly, their life.

People with less knowledge will make worse choices, most of them. Why? The reason is obvious, their lack of knowledge. They don't have the knowledge to predict the effect their choices will have on their future. For example, to beg for money at the corner of the street. It's not a solution for their financial problem, as it will not improve their standard of living. Beggars will beg for the rest of their lives, as they don't have the money and skills to start a business. In fact, they will lost their interest in gaining knowledge and trying other occupation. Why? They think that they can get enough money to eat by begging, so why should they try another occupation? It would be better for them to work as labours at factories. They can even work as mechanics, with the knowledge they will eventually gain, they can open their own business.

Making the right choice is not a skill you can get in an instant or by reading a book for dummy, it's a skill you will get as you grow up, gain knowledge, and gain experience.

I'm sure that we have the capabilities to make the right choices for our lives.

Good luck!

Learning The Calendar

2009-05-18T16:00:00.002+07:00

This is one of the brain improvement which you can use to amuse your friends! Learning the calendar means to know what day it is every time you see a date. When your friends ask you what day is it on 1 January 1987, you'll be able to tell them that it's Thursday!
Other examples:
3 March 1865 : Friday
27 October 2066: Wednesday

Your friends will definitely say, how did you do that?!

It's easy, but it's also difficult. I mean, you have to memorize the codes first, then you can amuse your friends! There are some codes to memorize.

For the explanation, I will use the date 29 May 2057

There are 3 things you get from a date: day, month, year, and century. Thus, there are 4 kinds of codes:

Day Code
The day code is easy, in fact, you don't have to memorize anything! We are working with the basis 7 here, so subtract the day number by 7 until it can't be subtracted again.
Example: 29 you get from 29 May 2057, subtracted by 7 for 4 times leaves you with 1. So here, the code is 1.
Month Code
Here, you have to memorise the code for each month:
1. January : 1
2. February : 4
3. March : 4
4. April : 0
5. May : 2
6. June : 5
7. July : 0
8. August : 3
9. September: 6
10. October : 1
11. November : 4
12. December : 6
For the example, it is May, so the month code is 2.
Year Code
Year code is the most important part of this method. You have to memorize the code for each year, to make it easier, I divide them into 7 categories:
I will present them just straight to the year, for example: 57, 68, 99

Year code: 0
The year: 00, 06, 17, 23, 28, 34, 45, 51, 56, 62, 73, 79, 84, 90

Year code: 1
The year:01, 07, 12, 18, 29, 35, 40, 46, 57, 63, 68, 74, 85, 91, 96

Year code: 2
The year: 02, 13, 19, 24, 30, 41, 47, 52, 58, 69, 75, 80, 86, 97

Year code: 3
The year: 03, 08, 14, 25, 31, 36, 42, 53, 59, 64, 70, 81, 87, 92, 98

Year code: 4
The year: 09, 15, 20, 26, 37, 43, 48, 54, 65, 71, 76, 82, 93, 99

Year code: 5
The year: 04, 10, 21, 27, 32, 38, 49, 55, 60, 66, 77, 83, 88, 94

Year code: 6
The year: 05, 11, 16, 22, 33, 39, 44, 50, 61, 67, 72, 78, 89, 95

For this example: 2057 means that the number is 57 with the code 1.
Century Code
For the century code, it has a series: 6, 4, 2, 0, ...
Starting from 1600s : 6
1700s : 4
1800s : 2
1900s : 0
2000s: 6
and so on...
For this example: 2057 means that it's in the 2000s with the code 6.

To sum up: 29 May 2057 has the code:
Day code: 1
Month code: 2
Year code: 1
Century code: 6
Sum the codes you have : 1 + 2 + 1 + 6 = 10
Again, we are working with the basis 7, so subtract all 7s, that leaves you with 3.

Translation code:
1 : Sunday
2 : Monday
3 : Tuesday
4 : Wednesday
5 : Thursday
6 : Friday
0 : Saturday

Thus, 29 May 2057 falls on Tuesday!

Leap Year:
For leap years, subtract 1 from the total.
IMPORTANT : Do this only when the date is between 1 January and 29 February!

Example: 24 January 1912
Day code : 3
Month code : 1
Year code : 1
Century code : 0
TOTAL: 5
It is a leap year. Thus, subtract 1:
The total is 4, means that it's Wednesday!

I think that's all, just memorize those codes and you'll be ready to amuse your friends in no time!
Good luck!

Why Should We Dream?

2009-05-16T11:17:00.000+07:00

Dreaming can be defined as the state where we are imagining or fantasizing about something. It usually happens at night while we are sleeping. Everyone dreams. We often dream about some situations in the past, fantasizing about things, imagining that we are the owner of the world, and even things which are impossible.

We can dream all day, it is called day-dreaming. We often day-dream, either we realize it or not. We fantasize about things want, things we could've done in the past, or imagining something impossible.

The dream we are talking about here is a dream of our future, a dream of a future we want. I know that it's ridiculous for a dustman to dream that in the future he would be a billionaire. It seems impossible, but I know some people who got rich in a blink of an eye. Some people in my country suddenly got rich when their children won a competition.

2 principles to choose your dreams:

Don't be afraid to dream as high as you can.
It is really important to dream. The dreams would motivate us to keep on working towards the goal. If you have a dream, your body will unconsciously do things which help you to reach the goal.

Lots of people feel that having a really wild dream will hurt them when they couldn't reach their dreams. The higher the dream, it will hurt you more when you fall. This is wrong. Don't be afraid to fall, just dream! A strong person is a person who can get back up after falling down. Don't burden yourself with the failure, turn the failure into something positive, think that the failure means that you need to try again with more effort. The higher dream you have, the more motivation you will have. Motivate yourself with the dream!
Push your dreams to the limits, but not off the limits.
Dream as high as you can doesn't mean that you can dream for something really impossible. An example: a dustman who wants to be an astronaut. We have limits for our dreams.

Push our dreams to the limits, but not off the limits. Choose dreams which are impossible to do now, but might come true in the future! Let's put it like this, dream something which has 1% probability of coming true. For example: an ordinary student who wants to be the king of property business. It's really difficult to be a property king, to be a property king, someone has to have some money to buy some properties first and he/she has to have the knowledge. Thus, the ordinary student has to work really hard to be a property king, but it's possible, even though the probability is only 1%.

Have your own dreams! Motivate yourselves, work hard, reach your dreams, and live happily!

Good luck!

2 Basic Reasons to Fake Smiles

2009-05-16T11:15:00.001+07:00

Everyone knows what smile is, but not everyone knows what it really means. Smiles can mean lots of things, it can even change your life. Often, not smiling can cause much trouble to us. In contrary, smiling can give you lots of things you could never imagine.

Sometimes we fake smiles, why? It's obvious that we fake smiles to get what we want. For example, sometimes we fake smiles in front of our business partners to get a deal. Another example, we fake smiles to get some bonus from our bosses. Those examples are the examples of fake smiles for bad, don't do it.

These are the 2 basic reasons why we fake smiles for good, not for bad:

We fake smile to give ourselves some spirit.
We have to fake smiles when we have no spirit, when we are sad, and when we need some spirit to stand up. Fake smiles can give

Most people don't realize that smiles can be used this way. Even though the smiles might be fake, it really affects our feeling. When we have no spirit, we have to smile. The smile will help us to get some spirit. Most people think that it's useless even though we smile, but it's wrong. All you have to do is to open your mouth, stretch your cheeks, show your teeth, and raise your eyebrows. It might be a fake smile in the beginning, then start to put in some feeling in and think about positive things.

If you really put some feeling in, you'll be able to feel the difference. When you think about positive things, you get even better! Think that everything which has happened can't be repeated. All we can do is to learn from the mistakes we have done, and try not to do it again next time. At the end, we will have a real smile!
We fake smiles to give other people some spirit.
We often see people around us get some problems. They are sad, they have no spirits, and they need us to give them the spirit. Fake smiles is one our weapons to cheer people around us.

Smiles are contagious. When people are happy, they smile, and when we see them smile, we also feel that we are happy too. We could also bring happiness to other people by faking smiles. When we want to give other people some spirit, we should smile. I'm sure that most people would rather choose a smiling person to give them spirit rather than people who don't smile. How could you get some spirit from people who don't have spirits. That's why, we should fake smiles, even if we feel some empathy. We have to show our smiles, to make them feel better!

The point is, fake smiles if you think that it's for good. Fake smiles first, make real smiles next^^!

Good luck!

New category: Self Improvement

2009-05-16T11:09:00.002+07:00

Hi friends! I'm going to add a new category, about self improvement. There, you'll find some tips to improve yourselves and some other things, excluding brain improvement.

Have fun with new articles!

Ben Pridmore Interview and Demonstration

2009-05-13T18:36:00.002+07:00

Here I put a video of Ben Pridmore, the 1st world memory ranking. In short, the best in the world! He can memorise a deck of cards in 24.68 seconds, other records:

Ben Pridmore holds these records according to recordholders.org:

930 binary digits in 5 minutes
4140 binary digits in 30 minutes
364 playing cards in 10 minutes
1404 playing cards in an hour

Mnemonic: Roman Room System

2009-05-13T18:06:00.002+07:00

Hi guys! Roman Room System is the system which was used back in the Roman period. Back in the Roman period, they had to memorised all poems and documents in their head, because there was no paper. Mnemonic itself was named after the Roman God of Memory, Mnemosyne. They used this Roman Room System.

Roman Room System means that the system uses rooms as the loci(location where you memorise something).

When a Roman wanted to memorise something, he/she put the things at certain locations.
For example:
Memorising:
book
sword
lion
axe
wine
The Roman made his/her Roman Room System first, he/she imagined a house which had lots of rooms. The rooms were filled with details, and all he/she had to do was to put the things he/she wanted to memorise at those locations.
For example: He/she had a beautiful garden, and also a beautiful door made of pure gold. When he/she entered the house, on his/her right there was a library filled with cabinets and there was also a fireplace. The next room was his bedroom, there was a bed in the middle of the room, and also a TV.
Associating things: At the garden, he found a book. He/she wanted to put the book at the library, when he/she entered the house, he/she saw a sword on the floor. He took the sword, turning right to the library. At the library, he saw a lion, then stabbed the lion with the sword. To cut its head, he took an axe and cut off its head. Then, he went to his bedroom, to relax by drinking wine.
That way, you'll be able to memorise things quickly.

Make your own Roman Room System:

Get a piece of paper.
Get a pencil, colour pencil if possible.
Draw the map of your house, fill it with lots of details, like the colour, and also adding things like lamps, chandelier, vases, carpet, and other things.
Imagine your house with all its insides. Walk through your house to know your house inside out.

When you are ready, associate things to your house, remember the key point: wild imagination! The wilder you get, the more memorable they will be.

The advantage of this system:
You'll never run out of places! Because you can always extend your house! Add some more rooms, details, gardens, escalators, and other things! It doesn't always have to be a house, you can make a castle, hotel, and even your own town! Just make sure to know its inside out!

Good luck!
Have fun^^!

Mnemonic: Alphabet System

2009-05-11T06:38:00.004+07:00

Hi guys! Alphabet system here is a mnemonic system using letters as the pegs. Therefore, we have 26 pegs here. Same as other mnemonic systems, we have to translate the pegs into memorable images, where we can associate things we want to memorise with the images.

Making your own alphabet system:

Write down the alphabets from a-z on a piece of paper.
Write down a-z, fill only each row with one letter, or you can divide them into several columns. Later, you'll have to write a word for each letter, so leave space between your columns.

Example: 2 columns:

A M
B N
C O
... ....
Translate each letter into a word.
Write a word beside the letter.
Guidelines:
1. All letters which are also words, have to use the words.
  There are letters which are also words, for example: B-Bee C-Sea J-Jay
2. Other than those letters, use only words with slight difference only, and you have to use words with the same first syllable pronunciation.
  For example: G-Giraffe
  A-Ace
  D-Demon, but not Devil, because of the pronunciation.
Translate each word into images in your mind.
Imagine those words in your mind, make wild imaginations. Test yourself by asking yourself a random letter. For example: G! H! L! X!

Now you have your own alphabet system!

How to use the alphabet system?
It's basically the same with other mnemonic systems, use associations! It's the same with the number-shape and number-rhyme systems. Associate each thing you want to memorise with each peg(the word), starting from a.
For example:
A-Ace
memorising:a bear
association: A bear, it plays cards, then it loses, it throws cards at its friends and it went wild.

Now you have a collection of mnemonic systems, if you only got them from this blog, then you now have 4 systems: link system, number-shape system, number-rhyme system, and alphabet system.
Total pegs you have:
Number-shape: 10 pegs
Number-rhyme: 10 pegs
Alphabet: 26 pegs
TOTAL: 46 pegs
In conclusion, you can memorise 46 things in a go! You can do 50 or more with the help of link system.

Train your memory everyday! You'll eventually get better and cut your memorising time. In addition, you can amuse your friends with this incredible feat of memory!

Good luck^^!

Andi Bell Memorising Cards

2009-05-10T15:09:00.003+07:00

Hi guys! I have been posting about mnemonics systems, but I think that lots of you are not interested in it. Here I post a video to give you a demonstration about the mnemonic system.

It's a video of Andi Bell, 3 times World Memory Champion, he's memorising 10 packs of cards:

Good luck^^!
If you want to be like that, just train your memory! I still can't do it, but my current record is about 183 secs for a pack of cards.

Mnemonic For Studying

2009-05-09T22:39:00.004+07:00

Hi guys! I'm going to explain mnemonic for studying now. As we know, mnemonic systems can help you memorising things. If we can use it for studying, we would be able to save our time by studying quicker.

Advantages you get:

Make most of your studying time!
Using mnemonic systems will help you in memorising things. As the result, you are able to memorise things a lot quicker than you ever before. Thus, it can shorten your studying time. You can use the rest of time time reviewing again and again.

For example:
Usual studying time: 2 hours.
Using mnemonic: 1 hour, 1 hour for reviewing.
Thus, you will get better results!
Memorise quickly, evaporate slowly.
Using mnemonic systems, you can memorise things quickly. There's a myth about memorising things quickly, and they will evaporate quickly too, like easy come easy go. But, by using mnemonic, all you have to do is to review the images you've made. It's easier for us to remember images rather than plain words. That's why it will evaporate slowly, it might even stay in your mind for years, or forever!
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Using mnemonic system also trains your brain, it trains both sides of your brain. Thus, you'll be able to memorise things easier the next time you study.

How to use it?
There are 3 main points in mnemonic:

Association
Means that how you associate things with other things.
Location
Means where you store the images.
Imagination
Means how you symbolise those words into images.

It is easy to memorise those points, think about moh. Ali, the boxer.

Example question:
What did Adam and Eve eat which gave them sin? Apples

Steps to use mnemonic:

Read the question, find the keyword.
In this case, the keyword is 'Adam and Eve'.
From the keyword, find a location.
Location here: Eden, why? Because Eden is the place where Adam and Eve did bad things.
I suggest you to use keywords from the question as the location, why? Because the location is the place you store the images, it would be better if the question reminds you of the location, and you can start looking for your images in that location.
Imagine the keyword and location:
Imagine Eden, which was so beautiful, and you saw Adam and Eve are running naked.
Imagine the answer:
Imagine that they were running toward an apple tree.
Associate them:
Imagine that they climbed up the tree and eat the red tasty apple. Imagine the tase of the apple, sweet, watery, and fresh. Use all of your senses. Then imagine that they come down, wearing clothes like a someone you like, movie stars, or anyone. Try to make it funny, or weird. The weirder you get, the more memorable it is.

You can use this technique to study! If you have to memorise a long sentence, just pick up the keywords, imagine them, put them at a relevant location, use your senses, make it weird, and it will stay in your memory for a long time.

Have fun^^!
Good luck^^!

5 Tips to Study Effectively

2009-05-08T16:58:00.010+07:00

Hi guys! Are you tired of long studying time? Are you bored of looking at your books, memorising the words? Do you want to know how to study effectively? This article is what you're looking for!
If you are having difficulties studying, you are not alone! Studying for an exam has been a problem for most students. Students often say that they don't have enough time to study. Studying time varies from one student to another, some can study in an hour for an exam, but some say that a day is just not enough. This could be a serious problem, when the students who need a long time to study fail an exam, and this happens occasionally, it might give them a shock. The shock can give them stress, this leads to a depression, and the final destination is a life-time regret.

5 tips to study effectively:

Manage your time!

Time management is always a crucial point, not only in studying, but every aspect of our lives. When you have to ability to manage time, you'll be able to do things at the right time and in an effective way. When it's your time to take a rest, take a rest! When it's your time to study, study! Don't take a rest when you are studying and don't study when you are taking a rest! We need a rest to stay fit when we are studying. When you are studying, concentrate on your study.

When I have an exam the next day, I usually spend my evening by playing games, watching T.V., reading comic books, surfing the web, and other fun things. Mostly, I start studying at half past 7 and finish before 10 o'clock. My average mark: 80 out of 100. I do whatever I want before I study.
Concentrate!
Concentration is a crucial point in studying. When you don't have the concentration, you won't be able to study quickly. Concentrating helps you to memorise things quicker. Therefore, speeds up your study.

There are lots of ways to develop concentration, it varies from one to other students. Some students say that listening to music helps them to concentrate, some say that studying at a really quiet place helps to concentrate, I personally like to study while I listen to music. When I am bored, I sing(though my voice isn't that good), lol.
Believe in yourself!

Believing in yourself is one important matter. It is a matter of passing and failing. Believing in yourself prevents you from panicking. Sometimes, before we start, we feel that there's too much to memorise, it cause us to panic. By believing in ourselves, we prevent panicking and help us to stay calm. Thus, speeding up our studying time.
Take little breaks!
This is also crucial, for taking little breaks prevents us from ringing the boredom-bells. It is ideal to take a 5 minute break every half an hour. Use your breaks to drink, stretch your body, and you can even scream to release the stress.

What if you've already rung your boredom-bells?
It would be better to study when you are not bored, as boredom might slow you down. Stop studying for a while, have a longer break, 15 minutes maximum, then study again. Never stop too long, a long stop will not help you study quicker, it's a waste of time. When you stop too long, you become too lazy to study again.
Smile!
A little smile will definitely help you. Little smile, but big effect. Smiles give you the spirit to study. Even if it's a fake smile, they can give you some spirit. Smiles are signs of positive way of thinking, and positive thinking gives you the spirit to study. Smiles can also reduce your boredom alarm time.

Hope that my tips are useful for all of you, they are my personal tips. I suggest you to use mnemonic systems, it really speeds up your studying time. I will write a post about how to use mnemonic systems to study, just wait for it.

Have fun^^!

Why Should We Train Our Memory?

2009-05-07T21:52:00.002+07:00

Having a good memory means a good life. How can this happen? It's simple, a great memory helps you in lots of aspects of life.

Some examples:

Memorising people's names and faces. Have you ever met someone you know, but he/she forgot your name? How did it feel? Bad, huh? When you remember people's names and faces, it makes them feel that you appreciate them, and feel that they are meaningful in our lives. It can sometimes be crucial to remember people's names and faces, it's crucial in situations such as meeting business partners or important people. Business partners sometimes feel that it's impolite to forget their names, as they are your business partners. They might cancel the business deal, etc.
Memorising phone numbers. In this modern world, we have a great thing called mobile-phone which helps us to save phone numbers. But sometimes, it would be better for us to save the phone numbers in our brains, as we might forget to bring our mobile-phones. It's also more practical to save phone numbers in our brains, as we don't have to take the mobile-phone out, open it, and input the numbers. All we have to do is to remember those numbers.
Job Interviews. In job inteviews, you will need a good memory to memorise the company's profile, etc.

Memory trainings also help us to be a smarter person by improving our concentration and our observation skill.

Train your memory with mnemonic systems, feel the difference in your life!

Good luck!

Why Should We Train Our Brain?

2009-05-07T20:53:00.002+07:00

Hi guys! Why should we train our brain?
The answer is simple, to survive in this world. Nowadays, jobs are getting tougher and tougher to get. Being smart helps you get a job. It's pretty obvious that companies would prefer employing smart people to stupid people.

Smart here is to be able to respond quickly to situations, especially problems. The responses given also have to be sensible. A smart person has to be able to think logically, make comparisons about the advantages and disadvantages of a decision, think quickly, and of course make decisions. Why should we think quickly? Because life's about taking chances, second chances hardly exist. Training your brain will help you to develop the skills needed to be a smart person.

We now know that we have to train our brains, but why do people don't want to train their brains?
Most people say that brain training is boring. Nowadays, we have lots of games which train our brains. Games such as chess, go, sudoku, rubik's cube, etc. They have the ability to develop your brain power. Chess and go help us in many aspects of your brain, especially the decision-making aspect. In chess and go, we need to make decisions, and we often stand between the winning and losing line. Rubik's Cube, especially whe we are speedcubing, trains our brains to make decisions quickly. Speedcubing means that solving the cube as fast as we can. We also have to memorise the algorithms to solve it quicker. There are lots of other games which train our brains.

In conclusion, why don't we start training our brains now?
You can't be too late to start, start now and feel the difference!

Good luck^^!

Memory Daily Training Program

2009-05-07T10:42:00.002+07:00

Hi guys! Having learned those mnemonic systems, you should now be able to memorise at least 10 things in under than 2 minutes.

I think that some of us wonder how long should one train everyday. The answer is a few minutes!
In a day, you only have to spend a few minutes training your memory, and it will get better and better everyday! For the systems I have explained before, when you use all of them(link, number-shape, number-rhyme), you can at least memorise 30 things in one go.

First, write 10 things, use a timer to count the amount of time you use to memorise those things. For every correct item, give 1 point, and for every correct place, give 1 point again.

Then, try 20 things, try 30 things, etc.

If you are bored doing it by yourself, ask your friends to write a list of things, memorise them, and amuse your friends! With your friends cheering you, you won't get bored, plus, you will gain some confidence!

Key points:

Never pass a single day without even 1 training.
Trust yourself! There's no bell or signal which tells you when to move to the next thing. When you want to get as fast as you can, trust yourself, and you'll be able to do it!
Use you imagination! Calm yourself, don't be panic if you suddenly get low scores, maybe the images are not memorable enough, or you didn't have much exaggeration, change the images, and try to have more exaggeration.

Have fun with the systems!
I'll explain some more systems next time^^.

Mnemonic: Number-Rhyme System

2009-05-07T10:23:00.002+07:00

Hi, I'm back with another mnemonic system! It's the number-rhyme system. The Number-Rhyme system is another mnemonic with pegs.
The key point here is to symbolize those numbers(0-9) into images according to their rhyme.

For example:
1 is one, rhymes with run, fun, gun, etc.
2 is two, rhymes with poo, goo, etc.
3 is three, rhymes with tree, free, etc.
4 is four, rhymes with door, etc.
5 is five, rhymes with hive, life, etc.
6 is six, rhymes with pigs, chicks, etc.
7 is seven, rhymes with heaven, etc.
8 is eight, rhymes with bait, etc.
9 is nine, rhymes with line, fine, vine, wine, etc.

After you make your own Number-Rhyme System, try to imagine those images in your mind. Imagine those images one by one.

How to use those images?
It's exactly the same with Number-Shape System, when you want to memorise a thing, link that thing with the image.

Example:
1. Eggs
2. Book
3. Computer

The number 1 from the system(for examples, I use the association listed before) is gun.
Imagine that the gun has eggs for its bullet, and you shoot your friend's face with the gun. Your friend is covered in eggs.

The number 2 from the system is poo. Imagine that you found a book inside a pile of poo.

The number 3 is tree. Imagine that there's a hole inside the tree, and when you look inside, there's a computer.

Always use imagination to memorise things.
The key point to a great memory is your imagination!

Have fun^^!

Rubik's Cube Timer

2009-05-06T06:12:00.003+07:00

Here I have a rubik's cube timer.

To use it:

Put the cube you want to solve in front of you.
Hold both ctrl buttons on your keyboard.
When you release the ctrl buttons, the timer will start counting.
Start solving the cube!
After you finish solving the cube, push both ctrl buttons again, the timer will stop counting.

Download Rubik's Cube Timer

Have fun^^!

Yoyo Tricks: Components

2009-05-06T06:08:00.003+07:00

Hi guys!

I promised that I would upload the components. Now is the time! Components are the techniques you need to do yoyo tricks, like mounts and dismounts.

Download it here: Yoyo Trick Components

Have fun^^!

Mnemonic: Number-Shape System

2009-05-05T21:57:00.004+07:00

Hi guys! I'm back! This time I'm going to explain mnemonic number-shape system.

This is a system which allows you to remember things with the correct order. This is one of the mnemonic systems with pegs. Imagine that in your wardrobe, you can see your clothes with their hanger. Each hanger has its own number, from 0-9.

In this Number-Shape System, the point is to have pegs, numbers here are the pegs. In Number-Shape System, you need to translate each number from 0 to 9 into images, according to their shape.

Example:
0 is a ball, etc.
1 is a pencil, etc.
2 is a bird, swan, etc.
3 is handcuffs, you can also say it's an ass^^.
4 is a chair, sailing-boat, etc.
5 is a hook, etc.
6 is a golf club, etc.
7 is a cliff, a boomerang, etc.
8 is a snowman, etc.
9 is a balloon, etc.

Try to have your own association! When you close your eyes, think about the number and the shape, the first image coming into your mind means that it has the strongest impression on you. Use that image! Write your images on a piece of paper!

How to use those pegs?
Here's a list:
1.book
2.car
3.honey
4.computer

Make association between you pegs and those objects:
1 is a pencil, imagine you're writing something on the book using the pencil.
2 is a bird, imagine a huge bird carrying a car, the car is flying with the bird.
3 is handcuffs, imagine a honey-robber caught by a policeman, and being handcuffed.
4 is a chair, imagine you're wrecking a computer using a chair.

Key point: Use your wildest imagination! Use your fantasy!
The wilder your images, the more memorable they are!

Good luck!
Try to amuse your friends^^!
Have fun^^!

Rubiks Cube, Beginner Solution

2009-05-05T14:56:00.005+07:00

I'm back on Rubik's Cube topic!
This time I will explain how to solve a rubik's cube using beginner solution.
In beginner solution, there are only few algorithms to memorise.

I'm going to explain Jasmine Lee's Beginner Solution.
Here, we'll solve the cube layer by layer.

For the first and second layer, there are only a few algorithms to memorise, you can even do it by instinct!

First layer:

Make a cross
Put in the corners

Second layer:
Put in the edges.

Last layer:
This is where there are few algorithms to memorise (6 algorithms).

Make a cross(again, lol)
Permute the corners
Orient the corners
Permute the edges

Here is a link to download Jasmine Lee's Beginner Cube Solution

Have fun solving your cube^^!

Mnemonic: Link System

2009-05-05T14:48:00.001+07:00

Link System is one of the basic mnemonics available. I used to think that memorising 30 items is impossible, but using this method you'll be able to go shopping without worrying about forgetting your shopping list! You can also use this system to amuse your friends^^!

Test yourself first:
Remember this list consisting of 10 items, read them only once:
tie
spoon
glasses
soap
bread
eggs
jeans
lipstick
tissue
basketball

After reading them just once, write all items you remember on a piece of paper, in the correct order.
Scoring your answer: 1 point for each correct item, 1 point for each correct order.
How well did you do the test?
Most people can't do it very well, but after you learn this system, you'll be able to memorise them in no time!

Link System
Key point: USE YOUR IMAGINATION!

Let's imagine that you are at your front door of your house, trying to put on your tie. Now you are wearing a tie. After putting it on, you bite a spoon and on top of the spoon, there is a glass. You are concentrating hard to keep it balanced, you are walking out from your house. Suddenly, you step on a soap and you slipped, but you managed to keep it balanced.

You walk again on the street and you see a bakery, it smells great, you can feel the bread in your mouth, and you are drooling. You step on eggs, you fall down and pull someone's jeans down. She screams, you are looking at her face, and see that she is using her lipstick. Her lipstick falls down on your face, and you take tissue out of your pocket and clean your face. While you are cleaning your face, a basketball ball hit you on the back of your head, and you fainted.

Now, can you remember the story? Can you remember the items? Every time you have lists of things, do this and you'll be able to memorise them in no time!

Have fun^^!
You can amuse your friends too^^!

Mnemonic

2009-05-05T13:03:00.006+07:00

What is Mnemonic?
A Mnemonic device is a memory aid. Its job is to help you to remember things like shopping lists, things, chores, numbers, and lots of other things! By learning the mnemonics methods, you can remember things easily.

Before learning mnemonic, I used to think that remembering a shopping list of 30 items is impossible. After I learned how to use mnemonic, now I feel that it's just a piece of cake!

There are several systems I know:

Link System
Number-Shape System
Number-Rhyme System
Alphabet System
Roman Room System

There are lots of other systems, but I think that those are the basic systems.
I'll explain about them one by one on this blog, just wait for me to publish them^^!

Have fun^^!

Rubik's Cube Solver

2009-05-04T16:46:00.003+07:00

Hi guys!

For those who wants to solve their cube quickly, or just wondering how to solve the cube, use this solver:

Digital Cube

Have fun^^!

Go Tutorial

2009-05-03T10:30:00.005+07:00

Hi guys!

I'm back with the link to a go tutorial website:

Go Tutorial

There you'll find a step by step instruction and you'll be able to play go in no time!

For those who want to practise with Go problems:

Go problems

Good luck and have fun^^!

Yoyo

2009-05-02T22:36:00.004+07:00

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Hi guys!

The yo-yo is a toy consisting of two equally sized but not specifically equally weighted pieces of plastic, wood, or metal, connected with an axle, with a string looped around the axle. To play, you must slip the top loop over the end of your middle finger, and throw it down. Once it travels to the bottom of the string and returns to your hand, you grab it and throw it down again.

There are lots of tricks you can do with yoyo! It is fun to play and it can amuse people around you!
Here I have some tricks which you can use:

Beginner Yoyo Tricks

Later, I'll post the components(techniques like mounting, etc.) and I'll also post more difficult tricks, so keep your eyes on my blog, will you?

Have fun with the tricks^^!

Online Memory Challenge

2009-04-30T06:07:00.000+07:00

Hi, I’m back!

Do you want to compete in a Memory Championship?

Join Online Memory Challenge! It’s a website where you can train your memory and compete in a championship! It’s an Online championship where you can set up your own challenge!

Features:

Challenge set up
Memory training
Ranking

Your progress will be noted and you’ll get better in no time!

To see the website :

Online Memory Challenge

How do you join the competition?

First, send an email consisting your name and stating that you want to join the Online Memory Challenge. Send your email to simon.orton@gmail.com.

He’s the owner of the website, he’s also the Australian Memory Champion in 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2007!

After sending an email, wait for him to reply your email. In his email, he’ll give you your personal link to the Online Memory Challenge.

Have fun^^!

Neopets

2009-04-25T10:05:00.004+07:00

Neopets (originally NeoPets) is a virtual pet website launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on 15 November 1999. Six months after the web site was launched, Adam Powell and Donna Williams successfully sold a majority share to a consortium of investors led by Doug Dohring. On 20 June 2005, Viacom bought Neopets, Inc. for $160 million (USD).

Neopets is based around the virtual pets that inhabit the virtual world of Neopia. Visitors can create an account and take care of up to four virtual pets, buying them food, toys, clothes, and other accessories using a virtual currency called Neopoints. Neopoints can be earned through playing games, investing in the game's stock market, trading, and winning contests. Users can explore the world of Neopia with their Neopets and interact with each other through the Neoboards, NeoMail, guilds, and Key Quest.

Neopets is set in the themed lands of the fictional world of Neopia, which has its own calendar and timezone running concurrent with the real-world Pacific Time. It also has its own economy and stock market based around the Neopoint. Players earn Neopoints through various means including playing games and selling items. Once earned, they can be invested or used to buy various goods and services^.

A customisable Neohome

Users are free to choose their own path in the world of Neopia, from collecting things to battling against other users. Visitors can create a free account. A user then creates a Neopet and chooses its unique name, physical characteristics, and personality and may own up to four per account. Users may create up to five accounts but can only use one to earn Neopoints; that account is referred to as a "main" and the rest as "sides". A newly created pet comes with randomly rolled stats used for battling in the Battledome. You may ask to re-roll the statistics if they are particularly weak. Players are expected to feed and care for their Neopets when they grow hungry or ill, although they will not die if they are neglected. New users start out with a newbie pack of various items that introduce basic features of the site, such as food for feeding a pet. They can buy more items for their Neopets by earning Neopoints, the site's currency, through various activities including playing games and selling items. Some items will change the appearance, species, stats, or gender of a Neopet.

Users can interact with their Neopets by reading books to them, caring for them, and playing with them. This will make their mood better. They can train their Neopets to be fighters in the Battledome against other player's Neopets or non-player characters. Wearable items, such as certain clothing, can be used to customize a Neopet. Players can build a customisable Neohome for their Neopets, furnish them, and buy extensions that reflect the socio-economic quality of the house.

Players can collect certain virtual items and display them in a gallery or album. In addition to items, players can also collect trophies, avatars, and site themes, although there is no function to display the latter two.

source:wikipedia

You can play lots of different games on Neopets!

Have fun^^!

Go to neopets

Brain States

2009-04-25T08:41:00.003+07:00

The Four Brain States

Vibrations from rhythmic sounds have a profound effect on our brain activity. In shamanic traditions, drums have long been used to transport the shaman out of his or her body into other realms of reality through the use of constant rhythmic vibrations. Researcher Melinda Maxfield, studying the Shamanic State of Consciousness, found that the steady rhythmic beat of the drum struck four and one half times per second was the key to transporting a shaman into the deepest part of his shamanic state of consciousness.

It is no coincidence that 4.5 beats, or cycles, per second corresponds to the trance-like state of theta brain wave activity. In direct correlation, we see similar effects brought on by the constant and rhythmic drone of Tibetan Buddhist chants that transport the monks and even other listeners into realms of blissful meditation.

The gentle pulsating rhythms of Brain Sync tapes act in a similar fashion, yet because the frequencies are computer generated, they are precise, consistent and can be targeted to induce highly specific and desired brain states. Just as we can tune a radio to get a particular station, with Brain Sync technology we can tune our consciousness to dial-in a wide variety of brain states.

You have your very own signature brain wave activity, unique to you. It has a rhythm and pattern - and it incorporates Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta frequencies at varying levels over the course of a day as your brain modulates them to match your activities. Brain Sync audio programs amplify a single frequency or a carefully balanced combination of frequencies to achieve a specific purpose.

Beta

Alertness

Concentration

Cognition

You are wide-awake, alert. Your mind is sharp, focused. It makes connections quickly, easily and you're primed to do work that requires your full attention. In the Beta state, neurons fire abundantly, in rapid succession, helping you achieve peak performance. New ideas and solutions to problems flash like lightning into your mind. Beta training is one of the frequencies that biofeedback therapists use to treat Attention Deficit Disorder.

Beta-centered programs help you prepare to take an exam, play sports, give a presentation, analyze and organize information, and other activities where mental alertness and high levels of concentration are key to your success.

Beta waves range between 13-40 HZ. The Beta state is associated with peak concentration, heightened alertness, hand eye coordination and visual acuity. Nobel Prize Winner Sir Francis Crick and other scientists believe that the 40HZ beta frequency used on many Brain Sync tapes may be key to the act of cognition.

Alpha

Relaxation

Visualization

Creativity

When you are truly relaxed, your brain activity slows from the rapid patterns of Beta into the more gentle waves of Alpha. Your awareness expands. Fresh creative energy begins to flow. Fears vanish. You experience a liberating sense of peace and well-being. In biofeedback, Alpha training is most commonly recommended for the treatment of stress.

Alpha-centered programs help you tap your creativity and are excellent for problem solving, finding new ideas and practicing creative visualization. Choose Alpha programs when you want to attain deep levels of relaxation that are so essential to your health and well-being.

Alpha waves range between 7-12 HZ. This is a place of deep relaxation, but not quite meditation. In Alpha, we begin to access the wealth of creativity that lies just below our conscious awareness - it is the gateway, the entry point that leads into deeper states of consciousness. Alpha is also the home of the window frequency known as the Schuman Resonance - the resonant frequency of the earth's electromagnetic field.

Theta

Meditation

Intuition

Memory

Going deeper into relaxation, you enter the elusive and mysterious Theta state where brain activity slows almost to the point of sleep, but not quite. Theta is the brain state where magic happens in the crucible of your own neurological activity. Theta brings forward heightened receptivity, flashes of dreamlike imagery, inspiration, and your long-forgotten memories. Theta can bring you deep states of meditation. A sensation of "floating." And, because it is an expansive state, in Theta, you may feel your mind expand beyond the boundaries of your body.

Theta rests directly on the threshold of your subconscious. In biofeedback, it is most commonly associated with the deepest levels of meditation. Theta also plays an important part in behavior modification programs and has been used in the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction. Finally, Theta is an ideal state for super-learning, re-programming your mind, dream recall, and self-hypnosis.

Theta waves range between 4-7 HZ. Theta is one of the more elusive and extraordinary realms we can explore. It is also known as the twilight state which we normally only experience fleetingly as we rise up out of the depths of delta upon waking, or drifting off to sleep. In Theta, we are in a waking dream, vivid imagery flashes before the mind's eye and we are receptive to information beyond our normal conscious awareness. Theta has also been identified as the gateway to learning and memory. Theta meditation increases creativity, enhances learning, reduces stress and awakens intuition and other extrasensory perception skills.

Delta

Detached Awareness

Healing

Sleep

Long, slow, undulating. Delta is the slowest of all four brain wave frequencies. Most commonly associated with deep sleep, certain frequencies in the Delta range also trigger the release of Human Growth Hormone so beneficial for healing and regeneration. This is why sleep - deep restorative sleep - the kind that Delta frequencies help induce is so essential to the healing process.

Delta is the brain wave signal of the subconscious, the seat from which intuition arises. That means Delta-based programs are not only an ideal choice for their sleep and deep regeneration potential, but also when you want to access your unconscious activity and help that wellspring of information flow to your conscious mind for clearing and for empowerment. Delta waves range between 0-4 HZ.

source: http://www.toolsforwellness.com/brainstates.html

Mind Map

2009-04-25T07:37:00.005+07:00

Mind Maps

Use a Mind Map, Save a Tree;

Use Mind Maps, Save a Forest!

Unlock your Creativity, boost your Memory and Change your Life!

What is a Mind Map? A Mind Map is a powerful graphic technique which provides a universal key to unlock the potential of the brain. It harnesses the full range of cortical skills - word, image, number, logic, rhythm, colour and spatial awareness - in a single, uniquely powerful manner. In so doing, it gives you the freedom to roam the infinite expanses of your brain. The Mind Map can be applied to every aspect of life where improved learning and clearer thinking will enhance human performance.

What do you need to make a Mind Map? Because Mind Maps are so easy to do and so natural, the ingredients for your "Mind Map Recipe" are very few:

Blank unlined paper
Coloured pens and pencils
Your Brain
Your imagination!

When you use Mind Maps on a daily basis, you will find that your life becomes more productive, fulfilled, and successful on every level. There are no limits to the number of thoughts, ideas and connections that your brain can make, which means that there are no limits to the different ways you can use Mind Maps to help you.

7 Steps to Making a Mind Map

Start in the CENTRE of a blank page turned sideways. Why? Because starting in the centre gives your Brain freedom to spread out in all directions and to express itself more freely and naturally.
Use an IMAGE or PICTURE for your central idea. Why? Because an image is worth a thousand words and helps you use your Imagination. A central image is more interesting, keeps you focussed, helps you concentrate, and gives your Brain more of a buzz!
Use COLOURS throughout. Why? Because colours are as exciting to your Brain as are images. Colour adds extra vibrancy and life to your Mind Map, adds tremendous energy to your Creative Thinking, and is fun!
CONNECT your MAIN BRANCHES to the central image and connect your second- and third-level branches to the first and second levels, etc. Why? Because your Brain works by association. It likes to link two (or three, or four) things together. If you connect the branches, you will understand and remember a lot more easily.
Make your branches CURVED rather than straight-lined. Why? Because having nothing but straight lines is boring to your Brain.
Use ONE KEY WORD PER LINE. Why? Because single key words give your Mind Map more power and flexibility.
Use IMAGES throughout. Why? Because each image, like the central image, is also worth a thousand words. So if you have only 10 images in your Mind Map, it's already the equal of 10,000 words of notes!

Here are some examples of mind maps:
source:
http://www.buzanworld.com/Mind_Maps.htm

Doraemon's Ending

2009-04-22T06:08:00.004+07:00

Hi guys! You definitely know Doraemon right?
Doraemon is a Japanese manga series created by Fujiko F. Fujio. The series is about a robotic cat named Doraemon, who travels back in time from the 22nd century to aid a schoolboy, Nobita Nobi.

Nobita Nobi is a fourth grader who lives at Nerima in Tokyo, Japan. He unfortunately inherited his dad's poor academic ability and his mother's poor athletic ability (along with her bad eyesight).
He really loves to sleep all day.

Since the late 1980's, there have been three often-quoted urban legends on how the Doraemon series was going to end.

The Optimistic Ending

The first and the more optimistic ending was made public by Nobuo Sato several years ago. Doraemon's battery power would run out and Nobita was given a choice between replacing the battery inside Doraemon, which would cause it to reset and lose all memory of Nobita and their adventures or await a competent robotics technician who would be able to resurrect the cat-robot one day. Nobita swore that very day to work hard in school, graduate with honours and to become that robotics technician. He then later successfully resurrected Doraemon in the future as a robotics professor, became successful as an AI developer and then lived happily ever after, thus relieving his progeny of the financial burdens that caused Doraemon to be sent to his space-time in the first place. A dōjin (unofficial) manga for this ending does exist.

The Pessimistic Ending

The second, more pessimistic ending suggests that Nobita Nobi was suffering from a mental disability and that all the characters (including Doraemon) are simply his delusion. In real life, Nobita would be a sick and dying little boy who imagined the entire series on his sickbed to help him ease his pain and depression. The idea of this story ending the series outraged a big majority of devoted fans. It caused so much outrage and controversy that many Japanese fans even staged a protest outside the headquarters of Shōgakukan (the publisher) of the series after learning about this suggestion. The publisher then had to issue a public statement that the idea of this ending wrapping up the series was false.

In fact, it has been proved that this ending actually correlates to the ending for the American medical drama series "St. Elsewhere", which ended in 1988.

The Third Ending

The third ending idea suggests that Nobita fell and hit his head on a rock. He fell into a deep coma, and eventually into a semi-vegetative state. To raise money for an operation to save Nobita, Doraemon sold every single one of the tools and devices in his four-dimensional pocket. However, whilst enough money was raised for it to happen, the operation failed. Doraemon at that point still had one gadget that he didn't sell and decided to use it as a last resort. He used it to enable Nobita to go wherever he wanted, whichever time era he wished to go and in the end, the very place Nobita wanted to go was heaven.

The majority of these ending suggestions were fictional, except the third ending. The third ending was actually meant to be the official ending to the series due to the 1973 anime's low TV ratings and the Fujiko Fujio duo was busy with other works. But the duo changed their minds as they were still firmly thinking about Doraemon and from then they restarted from next month's issue.

When the Fujiko Fujio duo broke up in 1987, the very idea of an official ending to the series was never discussed. Since Fujiko F. died in 1996 before any decisions were reached, any "endings" of Doraemon are fan fiction. However, it is apparent from many anime episodes and movies where Nobita travels to the future that in the end he does marry Shizuka, leads a happy life and separates with Doraemon, although Nobita and his friends fondly remember him.

This is not the real ending, cos Doraemon has no ending at all. There were several of them published, but Doraemon kept coming back to life.

I have the ending in Indonesian version:
Download Doraemon Ending

Have fun^^!

Major System

2009-04-21T05:28:00.005+07:00

Are you tired of forgetting something? Tired of forgetting your phone number and your friends' house number?

USE MAJOR SYSTEM!!

Major system is a mental tool which can help you to remember things. It works by converting numbers first into consonant sounds, then into words by adding vowels. The words can then be remembered more easily than the numbers, especially when using other mnemonic rules which call for the words to be visual and emotive.

The major system was introduced by Stanislaus Mink von Wennsshein over 300 years ago, and was later developed by many others with many variations. In 1730, Dr. Richard Grey set forth a complicated system that used both consonants and vowels to represent the digits. In 1808 Gregor von Feinaigle introduced the improvement of representing the digits by consonant sounds, but reversed the values of 8 and 9 from that given above.

How to Use the Tool:

The building blocks of the system are the association of the numbers below with the following consonant sounds:

0 - s, z, soft-c - remember as 'z is first letter of zero'
1 - d, t, th - remember as letters with 1 downstroke
2 - n - remember as having 2 downstrokes
3 - m - has three downstrokes
4 - r - imagine a 4 and an R glued together back-to-back
5 - L - imagine the 5 propped up against a book end (L)
6 - j, sh, soft-ch, dg, soft-g - g is 6 rotated 180 degrees.
7 - k, hard-ch, hard-c, hard-g, ng - imagine K as two 7s
rotated and glued together
8 - f, v - imagine the bottom loop of the 8 as an eFfluent
pipe discharging waste (letter image of F in
alphabet system)
9 - p, b - b as 9 rotated 180 degrees.

These associations need to be learned thoroughly before going further with the technique.

Starting to use the Major System

The system operates on a number of levels, depending on the amount of time you are prepared to devote to learning the system.

The first level, which involves coding single digit numbers into small words, functions almost as a poor relation of the number/rhyme system. It is at higher levels that you can unleash the real power of the system. You should, however, learn to use this first level before moving on.

The trick with converting numbers into words is to use only the consonants that code information within the word, while using vowels to pad the consonants out with meaning. If you do have to use other consonants to make up a word, use only those that do not code for numbers - i.e. h, q, w, x, and y.

At the first level we code each number into a short noun. This is made up of the consonant coding for the number, and vowels that turn the consonant into a word. On a sheet of paper, write the numbers 0 to 9, and apply these rules to create your own memory words. Some examples are shown below:

0 - saw
1 - toe
2 - neigh
3 - ma
4 - ray
5 - law
6 - jaw
7 - key
8 - fee
9 - pie

Moving to the second level

Similar rules apply to creating a standard word from two numbers. It is best not to try to use a single number word as a root, as this can confuse the image.

Write down the numbers 01 to 99, and apply the rules to create memory words for yourself.

A few examples are shown below:

09 - z, p - zap
17 - t, ch - tech
23 - n, m - name
36 - m, sh - mesh
41 - r,s - rose
52 - l, n - line
64 - ch, r - chair
75 - k, l - keel
89 - f, p - fop
98 - b, f - beef

Taking the Major System Further

Just using double number words may be enough to make this a sufficiently powerful mnemonic for you. Alternatively you may decide to use triple number words, using the same construction rules as double number words.

Examples are:
182 - d, v, n - Devon
304 - m, s, r - miser
400 - r, c, s - races
651 - j, l, d - jellied
801 - f, z, d - fazed

Even though you can construct words from first principles each time, at this level of complexity it may be worth writing them down to make them easier to remember. You can then run through them many times to strengthen the link in your mind between the numbers and the associated words. This will help you to remember the appropriate word faster.

Then, make a story containing people, objects, or anything which is in your major system. For example, if you want to memorize 4198, in this example I'll use the system above:

41:rose

98:beef

Associate them beyond your wildest imagination and you'll be able to memorize them easily.

For example: The beef is rotten and withered roses are growing on it.

The beef is from the cow you had and you give it a rose for its funeral

Good luck on using it!

Have fun^^!

$1000 ice cream!!!

2009-04-19T18:44:00.005+07:00

Ice-cream enthusiasts can indulge in this $1,000 ice cream sundae and savor their richness. It's called The Golden Opulence Sundae.

This pricey sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon to partake in the indulgence, served with a petite mother of pearl spoon and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel.

No word on whether you get to keep the spoon but if you wanna try fixing up one yourself then here’s the recipe:

5 scoops of the richest Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream infused with Madagascar vanilla are covered in 23K edible gold leaf.

The sundae is drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porceleana, and covered with chunks of rare Chuao chocolate.

The master-recipe is wrapped up with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries.

It is topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's further with sweetened and infused with fresh passion fruit, orange and Armagnac.

It can make you happy when you actually taste it!
P.S. Beware of the side-effect it will make to your wallet!LOL

Have fun!

Chess

2009-04-18T23:46:00.005+07:00

Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two players. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.

Chess can improve your memory, concentration, decision-making ability, and lots of things!
It's a game which has lots of advantages!

According to a research, it's said that people who play chess have less tendency to develop Alzheimer disease!

Why don't you play chess then?

Play online here, chess.com is one of the biggest online chess server.

Have fun!

Mafia Chaos

2009-04-18T22:58:00.004+07:00

Mafia Chaos is again, an online web-based game.

Welcome to Mafia Chaos, this is a free text based MMORPG game. Sign up now and start working your way through the underbelly of our society, the scum of this earth are out for your head and you must do everything humanly possible to survive this savage land. Work on improving your ranks to attack and mug people. Create your own gang to get yourself some protection. Commit crimes to earn some cash and buy weapons to help you while attacking your enemies. Are You Man Enough?

Motto: Rise to the top. Live the dream. Die trying

Quite a motto huh? (LOL)

Click here to go there.

Have fun!

Imperia Online

2009-04-18T22:48:00.003+07:00

Imperia Online is one of the web-based online games which is popular.

What does the game offer:
* No installation required
* Free registration
* Ability to socialize and compete with thousands of real players
* Totally realistic economic and war model
* Development, based on everyday decisions
* Build your Empire and dominate over your enemies Now!

Welcome to Imperia Online - Web-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Medieval Real-Time War Simulation!

We will take you to a world that exists right before the age of gunpowder. This is the world of the sharp blade, the long bow and the war horse. A time of political intrigues, huge medieval field battles, Fortress sieges with catapults and trebuchets, heavy knights wiping entire armies, striking in flank, pillages upon the civil population, thousands of soldiers dying in one battle. A time of legendary war lords, crushing rich and economically advanced kingdoms. A time of powerful alliances, fighting each other for total domination. You play against real people – others like you! Welcome to a medieval world way beyond your wildest dreams!

Click here to go there!

Have fun!

The Crims

2009-04-18T22:37:00.007+07:00

Online web-based games are getting more and more popular nowadays. The crims is one of the games. It's a popular game.

The Crims is a Free Online RPG which takes place in CrimCity - a metropolis for gangsters, scumbags, and criminals. You have limited time to earn as much respect as you can. The one with the most respect at the end of the game wins!

You can do lots of things in the game, including doing some smuggling, selling drugs, fighting, and even being a pimp!

Click here to go to thecrims

Have fun!

Go?

2009-04-18T18:27:00.007+07:00

Go?!

I think that not all of you know what go is. On the other side, many of you know about the manga series Hikaru No Go. Hikaru No Go is a Japanese manga series, a coming of age story based on the board game Go written by Yumi Hotta and illustrated by Takeshi Obata with an anime adaptation.

What Is Go?
Go is a game played on a 19 line x 19 line board. One player takes black stones and the other takes white stones from bowls or boxes, and they put them down in turns on the intersections.

What are the rules?
There are only two basic rules that generate the principles of the game, and one can be playing in minutes on a small 9 x 9 board. As one graduates to the larger-sized 13 x 13 and the official 19 x 19 boards, the game's complexities and subtleties begin to unfold, providing a never-ending source of enjoyment as new levels of play are reached.

Antone interested in Go, there are lots of internet go server:
http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/
http://www.gokgs.com/

Enjoy and have fun!

North Pole or South Pole

2008-11-04T22:04:00.004+07:00

Is It North or South?

In our lives, we have a thing which is called magnet. It's a thing which has 2 poles, north and south.

As people know that if 2 poles with the same kind are close to each other, they attract each other.
In contrast, if 2 poles with different kind are close to each other, the will move and push each other.

We know that magnet is the main part of a compass...
Earth also has 2 poles, North and South.

The question is, is it the north pole of the magnet which is attracted to the north pole of earth?
Or is it the south pole which is attracted to the north pole of earth?

The answer:
It's the north pole of the compass which is attracted to the north pole of the earth. Why?
It's because that the north pole of the earth doesn't really has 'north' pole, it has south pole instead.
It was named the north pole of the earth not because of its pole, but because of its location, which is on the north side of the earth. The truth is that the north pole of the earth has south pole, and the south pole of the earth has north pole.

Have fun!^^

Rubik's Cube

2008-11-04T07:51:00.003+07:00

What is Rubik's Cube?

Ernö Rubik was born on July 13, 1944 in Budapest, Hungary, during the second world war.

His father was a mechanic-engineer, glider builder, a renowned specialist, creator of more than twenty six types of gliders.
His mother was woman of letters, poetess and artist.

The Rubik's cube was invented in 1974 by the Hungarian professor of architecture Ernö Rubik. Some people may remember of it as the Magic Cube since at the beginning its inventor named it "Büvös Kocka", the Hungarian name for Magic Cube.

There are lots of way to solve the cube.

In general, it's divided to 4 categories:
1. Beginner Method
2. Intermediate Method
3. Advanced Method
4. Expert Method

I featured a link for the beginner method by Jasmine Lee.

Here's a link to solving F2L with intermediate method:
F2l Fridrich's Method, Intermediate

The difference is at the algorithms which should be memorized, the more algorithms you memorize, the faster you'll solve the cube!

For those who need a cube timer, I've got a link here: http://cubetimer.ciebiera.net/
It's a very good timer!

I suggest that you learn beginner solution first, and when you really get used to it, then go for the intermediate solution...

Here's a link which leads to a cube solver:
Download Cube Explorer (912 kb)

Here are some links:
www.speedcubing.com -> for serious speed cubing
www.rubiks.com ->rubik's official site
Jessica Fridrich's Speedcubing Page

for more links, click here

Have fun with the cube!

2008-11-04T07:46:00.000+07:00

Hi!
This blog is made in purpose to provide entertainment...
Have fun here!!^^